Thinking about purity in stories
Everyone makes mistakes, and leaving people with the message that it's the choices they make each day, rather than the loss of control, is what truly defines them.
Everyone makes mistakes, and leaving people with the message that it's the choices they make each day, rather than the loss of control, is what truly defines them.
Understanding the 'normal' was survival. If I couldn't pretend that my brain worked like that, I was socially punished. "Trial by fire" empathy if you will.
I am the hare. And I have lived in a world that tells me the right way to work is as the tortoise, and it’s a box I have tried to fit myself in for most of my life.
I am absolutely not afraid to be an immortal
I meant to write a book about enemies who fall in love. About kickass heroines and powerful dragons. And I did manage to write that.
She realized then, through a fog of her own despair for the future, that in that sea of light were worriers and dreamers and moms and daughters, security guards and poets and baristas and programmers.